Ahmed Al-Khalidi (@khalidi79397)

Colonialism is bad, right? Wrong. The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Fl...

And what happens if the West fails to correct course? 1. The standard becomes a weapon, not a principle. A moral framework applied to only one civilization stops being morality and becomes a targeting system. Every Western country and every ally identified as "Western-adjacent," Israel first among ...

One of Hamas’s oldest justifications for endless war is religious: they say all of Palestine is a waqf - a holy Islamic trust that belongs to God and can never be given up or shared. To a Western ear, that might sound poetic or symbolic. But it’s not. In Islamic law, a waqf is an eternal endowment ...

I find myself deeply puzzled by a certain Western phenomenon: the climate activists, human rights advocates, and self-proclaimed progressives who somehow end up echoing Hamas talking points. What drives that contradiction? How do people who fight to “save the planet” from harm find moral comfort su...

As a Palestinian who refuses to parrot our leadership’s lies, I have to say it bluntly: Telling Mizrahi Jews - Jews from Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, and the rest of the Arab world, that they are doing “ethnic cleansing” to us is the gaslight of the century. Let’s start with facts. Mizrahi J...

I’m sick of hearing people say “both sides are led by extremists”, as if this conflict is some mirror image of two nations held hostage by radicals, while the silent “normal majority” on both sides supposedly just wants peace.This is not only wrong - it’s dangerously naive. Let’s start with us, Pal...